Olympics LIVE: Golf resumes and Team GB latest as medals to be won in athletics, cycling and sailing

After the first round of dives it’s good news for both British athletes. Jack Laugher tops the pile alongside China’s Wang Zongyuan with scores of 86.70 each.

Just behind them is China’s Xie Siyi who recorded an 85.00 with Mexico’s Osmar Olvera Ibarra the only other man to reach the 80s with his socre of 81.60.

Of the rest, Jordan Houlden leads the way in fifth place thanks to his 76.50. There’s plenty of dives still to come but it’s been a great start for the Brits.

Oh yes! Jordan Houlden is up first for Team GB with a 3.4 degree difficulty twist somersault that he nails! He leaps high off the board getting up around the five metre mark and performs the routine superbly. The entry into the water is strong and he’s scored a 76.50 which places him second.

Jack Laugher follows on the springboard with the same forward 2 1/2 somersault twist routine. Laugher leaps higher than Houlden and is equally, if not better, in the air.

He is better! By a long way too. Laugher scores a big 86.70 which puts him in first place.

Our focus is moving over to the aquatics centre now as Jack Laugher and Jordan Houlden look to reach the final of the men’s 3m springboard.

There are six rounds for this semi-final with the Brits full of confidence after the preliminary rounds yesterday.

After Charley Hull found the water at the first tee, the defending Olympic champion and USA star Nelly Korda kicks off her opening round with a drive that fizzes over to the right.

There’s a fortuitious bounce out of the rough and the ball finishes with a nice lay to approach the green with her second shot. Korda is away and is the big favourite to defend her title this week.

Keely Hodgkinson has said becoming a poster girl for track and field would be an honour, as her coach called her a “superstar” who is ready to take on golden girl status.

It makes her the first British woman to claim Olympic 800-metre gold since Dame Kelly Holmes in Athens in 2004, and the third going back to Ann Packer in 1964.

Over at Le Golf National, Team GB’s Charley Hull is just getting her opening round underway. She’s playing alongside Australia’s Hannah Green and Rose Zhang of the United States.

Tommy Fleetwood took silver in the men’s golf, can Hull emulate him over the next four days?

She starts her round with a booming drive down which hooks over to the far left and seemingly lands in the water! Not the start the Brit would have been hoping for.

India’s star wrestler Vinesh Phogat has been disqualified from the Paris Olympics on the morning of her gold medal fight after coming in overweight, officials say.

Phogat was slated to lock horns with Sarah Hildebrandt of the United States later on Wednesday after beating Cuba’s Yusneylys Guzmán in the 50kg semi-final.

Sources told The Indian Express Phogat was approximately 2kg overweight on Tuesday night, after which the wrestler made a desperate bid to make weight by jogging, skipping and cycling through the night. At a weigh-in in the morning she was still 100 grams over, the outlet reported.

The Indian Olympic Association confirmed the news of her disqualification at around 8.30am Paris time.

Kellie Harrington has confirmed she will “retire a champion” after claiming her second successive Olympic gold medal.

Victory secured back-to-back wins for Harrington in the Games after defending her gold medal from Tokyo 2020 and she confirmed her retirement post-bout.

She told RTE: “It’s the last hurrah. I’m done. I always said I’d retire a champion, that’s it. Let me say it again: Bob’s your uncle, Fanny’s your auntie, goodnight Irene.”

An emotional Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix spoke openly about her struggles with her mental health and said she reminded herself that she is “grateful to be alive” as she finished her Olympics sixth in the 10m platform final.

Spendolini-Sirieix, who is the daughter of TV personality Fred Sirieix, had previously revealed that she experienced depression and felt like a disappointment after her Olympic debut in Tokyo three years ago, when she was 16.

Paris, 1924. Eric Liddell is poised at the starting line of the 400m track, a union jack sitting proudly on the breast of his white running kit. It took him 47.6 seconds to make history that day – Liddell set a new Olympic and world record during the sprint. It was a race that would later be immortalised in the 1981 Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire.

If you have seen the film, you’ll be forgiven for thinking you know the other dramatic storylines in his short life, too – notably that he was more famous for the race that he didn’t win during the Paris Olympics that year.

The Scot had been a favourite to take the gold medal for the 100m sprint, but when the event timetable was released, he declined his place. “I’m not running on a Sunday,” he said. His commitment to his religious beliefs came first.